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There he turned a barn into a $40,000 air-conditioned studio and imported top-notch Hollywood technicians to edit and finish the film. The result: Hobbyist Queeny's first completed movie, Latuko, a 50-minute color documentary about a hitherto unphotographed tribe deep in the equatorial Sudan...
...Hobby Lobby is an NBC Wednesday nighter that now sells Fels-Naptha soap chips by rounding up collector's items in hobbyists. In its time, it has cluttered NBC's elegant Radio City studios with all sorts of oddities ranging from a man whose hobby was training parrots not to talk to one whose idea of diversion was letting people break paving stones on his head. There have been casualties of sorts. The paving stone idea, for example, looked a little risky to NBC. Chips from the granite, flying out from under the sledge hammer, might have...
Last week, however, thanks to 20 years of rummaging by an enthusiastic Manhattan hobbyist named Robert Vincent, every town and hamlet within range of 34 local radio stations in the U. S. and several in Australia, might have heard the voices that Edison and others recorded speaking scratchily from the past. Set in modern, radio-dramatized transcriptions under titles like Voices of Yesterday, History Speaks, etc., the old recordings recapture moments calculated to stir the memories of oldsters and give youngsters shivery earfuls from beyond the grave...
Other recorded voices of yesterday: Kaiser Franz Josef, Queen Victoria, Woodrow Wilson, Mark Twain, Henry Morton Stanley, President Taft, William Jennings Bryan, Rear-Admiral Peary, Ellen Terry, James Whitcomb Riley, Vice-President (to President McKinley) Garret A. Hobart. Hobbyist Vincent is now searching for a known recording of the voice of Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen, famed uxoricide...
...association charges dues of 50? a year to individuals, a smaller, wholesale rate to clubs. The hobbyists' magazine, The Model Railroader (20? a copy, $2 a year), last year sent a questionnaire to no less than 6,000 known aficionados of the hobby in the U. S. Editor and publisher of The Model Railroader and leader of the association is Albert Carpenter Kalmbach, who in actual practice would never oil his model locomotives with the full-sized, long-snouted railroad oil can he posed with at Detroit (see cut). When Albert Kalmbach was five years old he made such...